Pansea Hotels & Resorts

Pansea Hotels & resorts designed, developed and operated a number of boutique hotels and resorts across Asia, renowned for their sense of place, architectural style and service - and for a focus on exceptional cuisine. They aimed to exude an aura of understated luxury and authenticity in accommodation with deliberately limited room inventories, and were amongst the first Asian hotels to place an emphasis on eco-friendly, sustainable tourism, as reflected in their green leaf logo.

The Pansea properties included the Pansea Yangon in Myanmar, the Pansea Jimbaran Puri Bali and Pansea Ubud Hanging Gardens in Bali, Indonesia, the Pansea Samui in Thailand, the Pansea Luang Prabang in Laos and the Pansea Angkor in Cambodia. The properties were sold in 2006.

The Pansea Ksar Ghilane in the Tunisian Sahara was sold in early 2011.

Unusual Asian holiday options

If you are seeking an authentic holiday experience in Thailand, away from the crowds, do visit these private, fully catered Thai pool villas in the heart of the tranquil countryside in Northeast Thailand (known locally as Isan). Discover this fascinating region off the beaten path, from your own fully catered pool villa amongst the rice paddies, and enjoy a genuine Thai welcome:

• Gecko Villa - a Thai holiday house and private pool in the countryside sleeping 2-6, and

• Green Gecko - a stunning Thai pool villa for rent out of Udon Thani, sleeping 2-4

• Rice Paddy Villa - a Thai style private pool villa opening in 2011

Further Thai holiday houses for rent  may be found here:

• Thailand Holiday Houses - Thai holiday houses and vacation villa for rent throughout Thailand

• Thailand Villa Holidays - Villa holidays in Thailand; unusual Thai vacation rentals